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Readit News12907835202 commented on Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think? whatsit.today/... · Posted by u/mkate
REMOTE | UNITY | CONSULTANT/DEVELOPER | VIDEO GAME MODDING
Hiring a consultant Unity developer to initially advise on a new project in March/April with the long term work either just consultation, management or full time development afterwards.
We rely heavily on modding and extracting data from the video game Football Manager which is being rewritten in the Unity engine for its latest version slated for release in March or April 2025.
We are looking for a Unity expert to help assess the new game and identify possible modding capabilities as soon as it is released and then work together to make a long term plan to mod the game.
We are open to working with a long term solo developer or creating a team of individuals. Until the game is released we will not know the full requirements. However we would like to have someone available to get started on the day of release, hence the flexibility of being just consultancy initially.
100% remote and flexible on hours.
Please reach out to contact@gamesnook.net
12907835202 commented on Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest apnews.com/article/denmar... · Posted by u/geox
> A growing population require food.
Sure, but Europe's not growing. It is purely in "shrink forever" mode. This is easily measured, any time fertility drops below 2.1 that's what happens. But ignore that a moment, what if you wanted to depopulate Europe? This might be a good policy for that. Get the timing just right, and it's not even a genocide... food shortages that don't starve anyone just encourages the last few breeders to put a lid on it, and voila! The fantasy of more than a few out there.
Have past instances of 2.1 fertility also had increased lifespan and immigration?
I just used the exact prompt they give as an example and got the very spam they claimed to have removed. Vice, The Independent, Healthline, etc... all advertising those gummies in ads disguised as news articles.
So yeah, probably not actually rendered useless.
Is healthline spam? It's my go to whenever I have a medical question to add healthline to the search
12907835202 commented on A “meta-optics” camera that is the size of a grain of salt cacm.acm.org/news/a-camer... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Chalk another one up for Vernor Vinge. This tech seems like it could directly enable the “ubiquitous surveillance” from _A Deepness in the Sky_. Definitely something to watch closely.
I haven't read deepness in the sky but it's interesting how wrong alot of scifi got this. Cameras are always considerably bigger than grains of sand
I'm looking for a music app (streaming or otherwise) that supports what seems to me like a basic feature, but which seems to be unsupported in anything I've tried.
I want the ability to shuffle my library/play the latest releases/whatever while leaving albums intact.
I want to play the entirety of one album in order, then play another album in order, and so on.
Anyone know of an app that does this? I'll drop spotify today if some other streaming service can do this.
Pretty sure iPod Classic did this.
But now I imagine most people don't mind looking at the app every 30-90 minutes to choose a new album.
Also just looking at my saved albums in Spotify there's loads of crap in there just because I've downloaded it offline once in the past 10 odd years. A shuffle of these albums would suck.
So they'd probably have to fix the saving/favouring of albums before allowing shuffling of them.
12907835202 commented on Should this be a map or 500 maps? escapethealgorithm.substa... · Posted by u/cromulent
We had a lively discussion about Google Maps in my cycling group. It's very annoying to have a map that is only designed to show the fastest route, and that forcefully reroutes you to it. It doesn't let you avoid a road or favour another. It does not show named bike routes and hiking trails. It doesn't even let you keep the screen on without having directions.
For most people, the entire experience of using a map is constrained to this mediocre one-size-fits-all solution.
Personalisation in general is just gone too. Remember the crazy weird skins for Windows Media Player? Now you're lucky if you can pick the OS-wide highlight colour.
In the quest to build universal products, we ended up with a tech culture designed by committee. As software is eating the world, so does this culture.
A welcome change from this is OsmAnd, an insanely versatile and customizable map that can be adjusted to your exact needs.
The biggest thing for me with maps is the refusal to allow multiple tabs on phone.
If you're the passenger on a road trip and doing the navigation you're unable to use maps to make plans for tonight or tomorrow.
Okay the driver could be nav, but now they also need to be the music, and everytime you the passenger wants to use it to look for petrol on route or change music you have to ask their code or hold it up to their face. Plus now you see all their notifications.
Even without being on a road trip, on a desktop i'd be making plans in multiple tabs before making a decision. On a phone it's a nightmare when it could be so easy.
The whole saga is an interesting lesson in how a noble cause can end up helping anti-democratic forces.
Assange gave the public invaluable information that would not have been know otherwise, but he ended up playing right into the hands of the people who wanted to discredit Clinton.
Politics is complicated.
Played into the hands? Didn't Assange personally hate the Clinton's, that seems less played into the hands of and more intentional?
12907835202 commented on How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search tedium.co/2024/05/17/goog... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
Then maybe you might be interested in Marginalia Search https://search.marginalia.nu/
I just tried it on a query for video game mods ("Football Manager Graphics") and it was awful.
I did a couple of other searches and realised the website I expected to be indexed, sortitoutsi.net, was not.
Nonetheless, even without that specific website in the index the results were truly bad.
It would either give 3 absurd/joke answers and one good correct one. Or give 3/4 correct answers and then insist that only one of them was correct and the others were wrong.
It's probably only accurate to specific topics and still requires alot of human validation and input. To me that makes it not that better than asking an AI for suggestions conversationally. Probably worse since you can make more progress and adjustments conversationally.